summary:Â itâs just jungkook. the sun is setting through the windows, and itâs always jungkook.
heâs handsome but heâs still pretty the same way he was when he was a boy, when he laughed too loud in public places and hung off jiminâs shoulders like they were linked by some invisible string he couldnât bear to pull taught.
and now, with the evening light filtering in golden behind him through the blinds, and that look, and his hair tickling his eyelashes and that same, patient, infinitely kind smileâ
(or; jungkook comes back to busan after two years in seoul and crashes on jimin's couch for the summer.)
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Does JK Touch the Other Members More than Jimin â and (More Importantly) Does it Matter?
Since I joined Jikook tumblr, one pattern Iâve noticed is how often the amount of skinship between Jungkook and other members versus Jimin is brought up.
The pattern goes like this:
Jungkook: Engages in skinship with another member.
An anonymous ask: âDid you see that?! Jungkook interacted with another member! Itâs true â he shows affection to the other members more than he does Jimin!â
Blog answer: âNo, thatâs not true. Here are a bunch of times JK engaged in skinship with Jimin.â
Jungkook: Engages in skinship with another member.
âŚ.And the pattern repeats!
I love these blog responses, and I always enjoy the gifs/photo-drops attached. I generally agree that I see no lack of affection between Jungkook and Jimin.
But itâs interesting to me that this exchange keeps coming up. Iâve seen about four waves of this just since Iâve been blogging (and the bit of time where I lurked without engaging). Thereâs obviously something at work here that makes this: 1. A repeated anxious reaction from Jikookers or 2. A quick topic to jump on for people who donât believe in Jikook and want to point it out.
So, letâs talk about it!
What Do We Mean When We Ask This Question?
This question is not just a stray observation. It comes with a lot of unspoken meaning, and it can vary depending on who is asking and why (which is information we donât always have with anonymous contributors).
I get two main readings off of these questions:
Jikookers who are nervous about whatever interaction theyâve witnessed, because they are afraid it invalidates their ship.
People who want to disprove that Jikook could be real.
So, what are we actually asking here?
Though not always spoken, the implication is that this means something about Jikook. JK seemingly showing more affection to Jin than Jimin, for example, indicates something negative about Jikookâs potential relationship.
It could be:
Theyâre not as close as we thought.
They couldnât possibly be dating because JK wouldnât do that if they were.
They broke up!
JK clearly doesnât even like Jimin that much (and my God, does that myth persist in this fandom despite all evidence to the contrary).
Iâm also not convinced itâs actually about frequency, though thatâs usually a part of the ask. I think itâs more that people have specific expectations about how Jimin and Jungkook (and Tae depending on the context) should behave, and if they donât live up to that, theyâre not real.
For some people, any contact with another member is too much contact.
Does JK show More Skinship with Other Members?
Okay, all that's fine -- but does he?
Hereâs the surprising answer: I donât actually know.
And, to be honest, you probably donât either.
Why is that? Well, because there is almost ten yearsâ worth of BTS content. Most fans have probably not seen all of it.
So, when weâre talking about what JK does the most, itâs hard to say for sure without the full context. And itâs important to remember that their filmed lives are only a small portion of their actual lives. Weâre already drawing conclusions based on a half-painted picture, and the picture can be more and more unfinished depending on how much and what type of content weâve consumed.
That doesnât mean we canât watch content and get a general feel for the members, their relationships, etc. â of course we can. But the question is often specifically about the frequency, which is evidence-based â and we donât have the full evidence.
Since we donât have that, the truth is often left up to perception.
And perception is affected by a lot of things.
How Perception Shapes Our Answer
Have you noticed how some Jikook and TKK shippers tend to hyperfocus on the interactions of the Maknae line?
Often, Vminkookâs relationships are compared and their behavior scrutinized, usually to decide which ship is âmore real.â But if any of the Maknae line were to engage in the same behavior with another member, that goes unnoticed or ignored. (Iâm looking at you, TaeJin.)
This is the bias that develops when youâre only paying attention to one ship, and/or one specific ship conflict. It looks a little silly when we zoom out and realize that there are seven people who all have relationships with each other, and that the group dynamics affect how they relate.
Every ship tends to value its membersâ interactions, Jikookers included. But our ships can also make us see content differently â more meaningfully or more suspiciously, depending on what weâre watching.
Does It Really Matter?
The most important question! And, perhaps predictably, my answer is a resounding no.
Mostly when I see these asks, my thought is, âWhy?â I donât feel the need to prove that JK touches Jimin more through normal skinship on camera.
We know BTS to be an incredibly close and tight-knit group. Their boundaries are very different than those between most friends and sometimes even family â particularly for Western audiences. They touch, a lot. And considering how stressful and isolating their lives must be, this is very healthy for them and Iâm so glad they do it.
Itâs already so hard to delineate meaning from how they touch, which is why most of the Jikook accounts I follow donât use that as a measurement . Itâs also why we donât have to edit out or pretend certain moments of skinship with others donât exist; because we donât heavily rely on those things to confirm or deny our ship.
And thatâs because thereâs so much more going on with Jikook than skinship.
Their awareness of each other, the way they speak to each other, the way they hang out outside of work or group situations and then tell us about it, the car sharing, the purposeful spilling of small personal details like âJungkookâs ears turn red when heâs being sincereâ or âJiminâs breath stinks in the morningââŚ.
You start to get a much larger picture, and itâs one that isnât so easily shaken by skinship or other relationship dynamics.
These actions sometimes get overlooked because theyâre smaller and less overt. Theyâre also less visible for people who are looking for a more fictional expression of love and romance. But they're there, and they're very telling.
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Hey, -love your blogâ¤ď¸-could you recommend any kookmin ficha where they are parents or one of them is a single dad, I just love kookmin in this scenariosđ. Thank you so muchđđť
thank you!â¤ď¸ hereâs a compilation:
-count as one together, do you? by adequater
-Hush Little Baby by yesjinnie
-Nanny by orphan_account
-your body is a place to stay by jonghyunslisterine